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During the final years of Charles Hopkins Clark's reign as editor of The Courant, the newspaper enjoyed a surge in circulation that has been attributed to Emile H. Gauvreau, a short-term managing editor with an enthusiasm for melodramatic news that ushered in the Roaring 20s in Hartford. Gauvreau's own life story could have held its own in a tabloid. He was crippled for life at age 5 when pranksters fired a cannonball through his bedroom window in Essex on July Fourth 1899. Despite being left with a bent body and permanent limp, he became a self-taught boy-wonder journalist at the New Haven Journal-Courier before he left for The Courant in 1916. Gauvreau was 25 years old when...

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